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One of England's most important playwrights, Tom Stoppard (born 1937) gained a wide international audience. His two great stage successes were Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Thing,...
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Biography EssayTom Stoppard, a leading figure of the British theater since the mid 1960s, ranks as a dramatist of brilliant and original comic genius. His first major success established him as a mast...
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Tom Stoppard achieved almost overnight success in 1967 with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which was commissioned for the National Theatre at the Old Vic, following the initial run of a shorte...
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[This entry was updated by Anne Wright (University of Sunderland) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 366-388.]Tom Stoppard, a leading figure of the B...
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Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" modernizes the renowned tragedy "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. Told from two of Claudius's accomplices, the novel creates humor and absurdity t...
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